I can't say it enough... Meal planning is a life saver! Today's menu called for Lasagna Rolls! I had everything I needed except garlic bread, which I purposely wait until the "day of" to buy so it doesn't go bad.
I really don't mind cooking... cleaning the kitchen afterwards is a whole different story... but the cooking part, I don't mind. Sadly, I'm not the kind of person that can just throw a bunch of ingredients together and create some amazing, new dish. I search recipes, I pick a few that have ingredients that I like, then I combine them and make it my own. So this recipe I'm sharing will be similar to others you might see with a few different ingredients and really bad measurements (I hate measuring! LOL :) I know there's many other recipes out there. I'm sure I probably do all kinds of things wrong and every Italian cook out there is probably cringing at the thought of store bought noodles and sauce... but my family likes it and amazingly I've gotten many compliments from others as well, so it can't be that bad!
So here's my version of a simple Lasagna recipe.
Get your pasta ready!
While the pasta and meat are cooking,
I start getting the cheese blend ready.
(I really only needed to cook about 1lb of meat but I cooked
extra so it'd be ready when I make tostadas in a couple of days. :)
A tub of Ricotta
I used about a cup of the Parmesan blend
Add an egg and some spinach if you'd like
Mix
Add meat or sausage to your desired sauce (or not)
I like to work with dry pasta so I lay them one
at a time on a towel... spread the cheese mixture
on each strip
Roll, pour some (meat) sauce over the top, sprinkle
some Mozzarella on tops, bake at 375 for about 30 mins.
or until bubbly and cheese is melted!
These are really filling! I made six rolls and had one left over. My teen was the only one with enough room in his belly to serve himself seconds! I served it with a salad and garlic bread.
Enjoy and thanks for stopping by! :)
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